The world's largest terrorist attack in history: a list, description and interesting facts

What is an act of terrorism? In other words, it is the commission of an explosion, shooting, arson or other such actions, frightening the population and necessarily creating the danger of death of a person.

This article will tell you about the terrible world tragedies that were the result of the actions of bandit formations and led to numerous losses among the population. The article contains a list of the largest terrorist attacks in the world.

The responsibility for such catastrophes, as a rule, is assumed by groups that are covered by Islam.

Top 10 most notorious terrorist acts of the XXI century

Here is a list of the biggest tragedies in the world by the number of victims.

1. September terrorist attack in 2004 in Beslan, North Ossetia. As a result, 335 people were killed (including 186 children), 2000 were injured.

2. March 2004 - the largest terrorist attack in Europe since the Second World War, committed in 4 Madrid trains (Spain). A total of 192 people were killed and 2000 wounded.

3. In November 2008, in India (Mubai) armed terrorists killed 174 civilians and wounded 239.

4. One of the most bloody terrorist attacks in Pakistan occurred in October 2007. The result was 140 people killed and 500 wounded.

5. In October 2002, 130 people were killed by a group of armed militants on a Dubrovka musical in Moscow during the musical "Nord-Ost". More than 900 people became hostages.

6. The world's largest terrorist attack occurred in the United States of America in 2001 on 11 September. From the actions of militants (4 passenger planes were captured), 2,973 people were victims.

7. In September 1999, an explosion was struck on ul. Guryanov in a 9-storey house in Moscow. As a result, 92 people were killed, 264 were wounded.

Another explosion in 3 days also in a residential house took 124 lives and injured 9 people.

8. As a result of the attack by militants in June 1995, 129 people died in Budenovsk and 415 wounded. More than 1,600 hostages fell into hospitals.

9. An airplane explosion (Boeing 747, a flight from London to New York) over Scotland in December 1988 killed 270 passengers with crew members.

10. The plane crash of a Russian passenger aircraft over the Sinai Peninsula in 2015 killed 224 people.

Below is a more detailed description of some of the most tragic consequences of terrorist attacks.

Twin Towers

The largest acts of terrorism abroad will be considered on the example of 2 events, which brought a huge number of victims, especially among American citizens.

The day of September 11 for all residents of this country and people around the world became mourning. The 11-man terrorists (the international terrorist organization Al-Qaida), divided into four groups, seized four passenger airliners in the US and two of them sent a large shopping center to the New York Twin Towers.

Both towers were collapsed along with the adjoining structures. The third aircraft was sent to the side of the Pentagon building (not far from Washington). The crew of the 4th aircraft together with passengers of the flight tried to escape, having intercepted the control of the liner from the terrorists. However, there was a collapse in the state of Pennsylvania (Shanksville).

The largest terrorist attack in history in total took away 2,973 human lives (including 60 police officers and 343 firefighters). The exact figure of the damage is unknown (about $ 500 billion).

Boeing 747

As a result of the Boeing-747 crash over Scotland on December 21, 1988, 259 passengers were killed along with crew members and 11 town residents.

It was an American plane of PanAmerican airline, which makes a flight on the route London - New York. This terrible catastrophe was tragic for some residents of Lockerbie, in connection with the destruction of the liner on the ground. Most of the dead were British and US citizens.

The charge was brought against two Libyans, although the state itself did not officially plead guilty. However, it paid compensation to the families of the victims of this tragedy (Mr. Lockerbie).

In connection with the events that took place, in 1992 the UN Security Council against the regime of M. Gaddafi introduced international sanctions, which in 1999 were lifted.

During all this time, many assumptions were made about the involvement of the highest representatives of the leadership of Libya in the organization of that catastrophe, but none of them (except for the guilt of the former employee of the special service Abdelbaset al-Megrahi) was proved by the court.

These two cases represent the largest terrorist attacks in the world.

The tragedy in Beslan

Russia suffered a huge number of terrorist attacks, the result of which was a lot of losses among innocent civilians, including children.

The terrible tragedy in Beslan (North Ossetia) is the largest terrorist attack in the world, which took the lives of a huge number of children.

A group of terrorists (30 men), led by R. Khachbarov, seized the building of school No. 1 on September 1, where he held 1128 people hostage (mostly children). The next day (September 2), Ruslan Aushev, ex-President of the Republic of Ingushetia, who was allowed into the school building by the bandits, managed to persuade the invaders to release and release about 25 women with young children along with him.

On September 3, an operation was carried out to free the hostages.

Everything happened spontaneously. When in the middle of the day a car drove to the playground near the school to pick up the dead bodies of the people killed by the bandits, suddenly several explosions were heard in the building, after which shooting began from all sides. From the opening in the wall and from the windows, women and children jumped out. At that time, all the men in the school were already killed by terrorists.

The surviving children and women were released.

"Nord-Ost"

Many of the largest terrorist attacks in the world occurred with the seizure of a huge number of hostages. So it happened in Moscow on October 23, 2002 (21 hours 15 minutes).

The theater center, located on Dubrovka (Melnikova Street), broke into action fighters led by M. Barayev during the presentation of the "Nord-Ost". In the building at this time there were only 916 people (including about 100 children).

The militants were completely mined. Attempts to establish contact with them were crowned with success, and after a certain time the State Duma deputy I. Kobzon, journalist M. Franchetti and 2 doctors from the Red Cross were able to pass into the seized building. Thanks to their actions, one woman and three children were withdrawn from the building.

October 24 evening TV channel "Al-Jazeera" demonstrated Barayev. This video was recorded before the capture of the theater center. In it, the terrorists presented themselves as suicide bombers, and their demand was to withdraw Russian troops from Chechnya.

On October 26, special forces stormed with the use of nerve gas, after which the building was seized, and the terrorists along with the head were completely destroyed (50 people). Among them were women (18). Three bandits were detained.

A total of 130 people died.

Statistics on victims of terrorist attacks of the last 10 years

Over the past 10 years, there have been more than 6,000 terrorist attacks worldwide. More than 25 thousand people became their victims.

At present, according to various experts' estimates, there are approximately 500 extremist groups and terrorist organizations. Disturbing the fact that recently more and more often the target of these gangster formations are places of mass gathering of citizens (remember the largest terrorist attack in the world).

Also, there is an increasing number of so-called "technological terrorism", where the latest developments and technologies are applied. In addition, there has been a recent increase in extremism among young people. The objects of the attack are increasingly becoming foreign citizens, differing in their ethnicity.

Terrorist act of 2015

The world's largest terrorist attack in the air occurred recently - in 2015 in the sky over Egypt.

A terrible catastrophe with the Airbus-A321 (the Russian airline Kogalymavia) was a shock to the whole society.

During the flight on board the liner, an explosive homemade device worked up to a power of up to 1 kg. In TNT. Equivalent. This happened on October 31. A total of 224 people died. After this tragedy, Rosaviatsia suspended from November 6 regular, transit and charter passenger flights to Egypt.

Responsibility for what was done was taken over by the grouping of the Sinai province (province) of the banned "Islamic state" (IG) in Russia.

The tragedy over the Sinai Peninsula is one of the bloodiest in the world.

Conclusion

In the 21st century, terrorism has become quite active and more sophisticated. Numerous news about the tragedy flood the press and television channels. Almost every month (and even more often) horrific attacks are carried out on the entire planet, which carry away the lives of peaceful people. A similar action of a kind is a disease of the earth. Attempts by some authorities to protect the population from such catastrophes have so far been unsuccessful.